At the core of my
group therapy program is a simple premise. Involvement with other people under the right
set of conditions is a powerful catalyst for healing, growing, and transforming. Group
therapy fosters the right set of conditions to be involved with people who are invested in
your growth and well-being. The special relationships that form in a group foster a
climate of safety and unconditional acceptance. In such a climate, you'll begin to develop
a better understanding of who you are. Beyond better understanding yourself, you'll learn
more about how other people experience who you are. Both of these are essential
ingredients for anybody hoping to transform their lives.

The
unique dynamics of group therapy combine to help you transcend the attitudes, beliefs, and
rigid patterns of behavior that have imprisoned you. The mutual support of the other group
members provides you with a sense of safety and belonging that allows you to take risks
and grow as a result of your new risk taking behaviors. As your connection with the people
in your group deepen, you'll discover how healing the support of other people can be.

What is
most unique about group therapy is that it is an active learning experience. The
most important aspect of this active learning experience is how you'll recreate
in the group all the significant issues that you face elsewhere in your life. Going beyond
the mere talking about these issues, the group serves as a learning laboratory for you to
create solutions for your life issues as they appear in the group. Through this
active experiential learning process, you'll incorporate new ways of feeling, thinking,
and behaving. This will enable you to develop a more healthy life style based upon
emotional honesty with yourself and others. As you develop a deeper understanding of who
you are,
you'll discover how to create different choices for the things you do and say.

That's
the key to the work--making new choices to old familiar life challenges. As you begin to
grow, you'll reexamine the choices you make in your life. The result of this
self-examination is you'll begin to discard those choices that no longer work for you as
well as create new choices that better serve who you are.

Quite
simply, group therapy is a dynamic process that facilitates a heightened awareness of your
actions, feelings, beliefs, and values. Out of this awareness, you'll develop a new found
sense of self-determination. Understanding yourself better will enable you to make the
most effective choices possible for you. These new choices will be based on your discovery
of what is meaningful to you based upon your emerging value system.
Ultimately, you'll discover how to live an authentic life--a life that affirms the essence
of who you are.